Simplify Time

So I mentioned in my previous post about how we are going to start simplifying....I thought perhaps I would start with our time... how do you simplify time? Where you spend it, whom its with, what you are doing, how much is spent at home vs. out and about....

This weekend, Labor Day...begins the fall routine and SCHEDULES. I LOVE schedules... I love routine, I love calendars, I love planning and I LOVE being busy. I think simplifying my (our) time is going to be one of my biggest challenges... Especially when the weekend looks like this....

Tonight we were supposed to help some very dear friends paint their son's new room and their new addition however that is now not going to happen... a free night? What to do with a free night... well, perhaps I should go through the rest of the weekend...

Tomorrow we will head to UNH around lunchtime to watch a previous athlete of Husband's and there is an option for a BBQ afterwards at her parents home.

Sunday there is of course church, then at 3PM we (when I say "we" I mean Husband) have our annual fantasy football draft... which for the women and children that don't participate it is loads of eating tasty football food, playing outside with the kids, and eating some more.

Monday there is another BBQ (it IS Labor Day weekend after all) at my Sister in laws (SIL) in honor of my nephew who is going away to college for the first year...

So I revert to my title... Simplify Time.... and the fact that our Friday night is now free....yes...I think that it will stay that way.

Day two...this "internet thing"

Really not sure how long this will stay up... at least to the public... perhaps it will be closed down to allow only my close friends and any family that may be interested.... reason being... I'm just not sure about all this "internet stuff".... Husband is REALLY not sure about it and rightly so... I definitely think that the times have changed and not all for the better. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era... I much prefer to be cooking, listening to Ella Fitzgerald and doing domestic goddess things than going to work, being on the computer or the phone and racing around life like we have to get it done.

This fall we are (read: I am simplifying and sort of coercing Husband :)) simplifying our life and just not sure that keeping a blog does that... Course I'd like to document it, how we do with our new budget, how we make more free time, how we manage the events that we WANT to do.... so we'll see what Husband and I decide on this whole "internet thing" :)

Everybody's doin' it....

So I got sucked in.... I want to be like the "cool kids"... we'll see if I can keep up... and we'll see if I can handle the fact that I have DIAL-UP internet at home but know that I should not be posting at work.... :) We'll see... I've been on IM with my friend Tracy who has been walking me through this set-up process.. well.. she's been "listening" to me as I growl my way through...she's a good sport. She asked me what I'm going to write about... I have no idea. Does anyone care? I think if its my blog I get to write whatever I want right? WHOOPIEEEE the FREEDOM! I'm looking forward to this.